Business is in itself a power.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.