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

“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.”

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

“Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.”

“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.”

“Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.”

“Irrespective of where you are, where you were born, what you can do or cannot do, irrespective of your starting capital in life, you can raise your value so high that you are needed for the most im...”

“Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

“Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor,...”

“Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.”