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.

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

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

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.

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

One genius is about all a house will hold.