If you own the things men must have, you own the men who must have them. - Edward Bellamy

Government is actually now what it nominally was in the America of your day--the servant, tool, and instrument by which the people give effect to their will, itself being without will.

The A B C of any science of wealth production is the necessity of co-ordination and concert of effort; whereas competition, conflict, and endless cross-purposes were the sum and substance of the economic methods set forth by these writers.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.