The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

The right of the majority is absolute.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.