Having a phobia has changed me.
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
