Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.