There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Business is in itself a power.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'