Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own wel… - William Graham Sumner

The man who started with the notion that the world owed him a living would once more find, as he does now, that the world pays him its debt in the state prison.

If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.