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.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

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.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. 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.