I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of du….

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly..

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right..

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other..

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man..

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow..

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody..

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists..

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not..

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man..

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead..

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be the….

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of….

Everybody works but the vacant lot.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one..

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical..

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values..

When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions….

It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, th….

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so litt….

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war..