The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.