As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.