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Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

The people must think because the people alone can act.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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

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.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

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

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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.

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

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.