As It Is With An Individual, So

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.

The People Themselves Must Think, Because The People Alone Can Act.

It Is Not The Business Of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or To Preserve The Fool From The Consequences Of His Own Folly.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

The Fundamental Principle Of Human Action, The Law, That Is To Political Economy What The Law Of Gravitation Is To Physics Is That Men Seek To Gratify Their Desires With The Least Exertion