One genius is about all a house will hold.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.