She is anticipating the legislation to come, which will inevitably restore the land to the people, from whom, in most cases, it was stolen." "Well, my husband gave two hundred thousand pounds of good, hard-earned money for Stoughton, where we live," Mrs.Ward Levitte intervened.

"So far as I know, the money wasn't stolen from anybody, and I should say that the robbery would begin if the Socialists, or whatever they call themselves, tried to take it away from us to distribute amongst their followers.

What do you think, Mr.Tallente?
My husband, as I dare say you know, is a banker and a very hard-working man." "I agree with you," he replied.

"One of the pleasing features of the axioms of Socialism adopted by the Democratic Party is that it respects the rights of the wealthy as well as the rights of the poor man.

The Democrats may--in fact, they most certainly will--legislate to prevent the hoarding of wealth or to have it handed down to unborn generations, but I can assure you that it does not propose to interfere with the ethics of _meum_ and _tuum_." "I wish I could make out what it's all about," Lady Alice murmured.
"Couldn't you give a drawing-room lecture, Mr.Tallente, and tell us ?" the banker's wife suggested.
"I am unfortunately a little short of time for such missionary enterprise," Tallente replied, with unappreciated sarcasm.