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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... →
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... →
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a... →
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... →
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great... →
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare... →
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and... →
Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very... →
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess... →
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... →
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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