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.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

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

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.