A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.