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.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

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.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

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.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

Existence is tedious, anyway.

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?— A very lost Marcus Brody

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.