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

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

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

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.