The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.