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.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

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.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

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

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