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

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

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

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.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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.