The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

Riches is not what we have, but what we enjoy.

Poverty is not the fault of the poor. It is the fault of a system that allows idleness at the top and starvation at the bottom.