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.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

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

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

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