The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.

The world belongs to those with the most energy.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.