My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign ….

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action..

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth ….

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty..

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay..

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of declin….

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearni….

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that th….

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxu….

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We….

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself..

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latt….

Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and….

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter st….

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee..

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the schoo….

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of a….

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to d….

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of h….

It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the ….

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted..