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.

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

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

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.

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