Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

The more stitches, the less riches.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.