Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.