If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

All socialism involves slavery.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.