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

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.

Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.