all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.