Since governmental activity may be deemed a service which is useful to society, society should consent to pay for this service. - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon

La politique est … la science de la production.

The whole of society rests upon industry. Industry is the sole guarantee of its existence, the single source of all its wealth and all its prosperity. The state of things most favorable to industry is by that very reason the most favorable to society.

Today, for the first time since the existence of societies it is a question of organizing a totally new system; of replacing the celestial with the terrestrial, the vague by the positive, and the poetic by the real.