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.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

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

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

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

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

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