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.

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.

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

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

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

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

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.