Government is essentially immoral.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

All socialism involves slavery.