The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.