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What we prepare for is what we shall get
The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
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.
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
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 welfare.
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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 house.
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 rare.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
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 house.
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
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 accumulation.
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 social extreme.
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.