What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

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.

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

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

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

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.