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.

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

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

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

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

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?