In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth.

They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives.

It pre-occupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

If the American people believe that large wealth really requires to be justified by proportionately large public benefactions, they should assuredly adopt measures which will guarantee public service for a larger proportion of such wealth.
Whether or not the state shall permit the inheritance of large fortunes is a question which stands on a totally different footing from the question of their permissible accumulation.

Many millions may, at least in part, be earned by the men who accumulate them; but they cannot in the least be earned by the people who inherit them.