The State, It Cannot Too Often Be

Social Reform Is Not To Be Secured By Noise And Shouting; By Complaints And Denunciation; By The Formation Of Parties, Or The Making Of Revolutions; But By The Awakening Of Thought And The Progress Of Ideas. Until There Be Correct Thought, There Cannot Be Right Action; And When There Is Correct Thought, Right Action Will Follow.

What Would Happen To The Individual If All The Functions Of The Body Were Placed Under The Control Of The Consciousness Is What Would Happen To A Nation In Which All Individual Activities Were Directed By Government.

Discovery Can Give No Right Of Ownership, For Whatever Is Discovered Must Have Been Already Here To Be Discovered. If A Man Makes A Wheelbarrow, Or A Book, Or A Picture, He Has A Moral Right To That Particular Wheelbarrow, Or Book, Or Picture, But No Right To Ask That Others Be Prevented From Making Similar Things. Such A Prohibition, Though Given For The Purpose Of Stimulating Discovery And Invention, Really In The Long Run Operates As A Check Upon Them.

As Man Is So Constituted That It Is Utterly Impossible For Him To Attain Happiness Save By Seeking The Happiness Of Others, So Does It Seem To Be Of The Nature Of Things That Individuals And Classes Can Obtain Their Own Just Rights Only By Struggling For The Rights Of Others.

The Value Of A Thing Is The Amount Of Laboring Or Work That Its Possession Will Save The Possessor.