“… A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Learn to think continentally.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable...

"…What ideas individuals may attach to the term "Millennium" I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence...

“… All wealth is the product of labor.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself....

“… I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling...

"... "While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."

"The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well...