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

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.”

“The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.”

“The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.”

“It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.”

“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 decline and dissolution by which she removes things wh...”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”