Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
From William Graham Sumner
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
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