Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.