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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is... →
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments... →
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it... →
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own... →
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