The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.