As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

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.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

One genius is about all a house will hold.