It Is But A Truism That Labor

Whence Shall Come The New Barbarians? Go Through The Squalid Quarters Of Great Cities, And You May See, Even Now, Their Gathering Hordes! How Shall Learning Perish? Men Will Cease To Read, And Books Will Kindle Fires And Be Turned Into Cartridges.

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.

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. Government Should Be Repressive No Further Than Is Necessary To Secure Liberty By Protecting The Equal Rights Of Each From Aggression On The Part Of Others, And The Moment Governmental Prohibitions Extend Beyond This Line They Are In Danger Of Defeating The Very Ends They Are Intended To Serve.

The Great Work Of The Present For Every Man, And Every Organization Of Men, Who Would Improve Social Conditions, Is The Work Of Education The Propagation Of Ideas. It Is Only As It Aids This That Anything Else Can Avail. And In This Work Every One Who Can Think May Aid First By Forming Clear Ideas Himself, And Then By Endeavoring To Arouse The Thought Of Those With Whom He Comes In Contact.

It Is Not From Top To Bottom That Societies Die; It Is From Bottom To Top.