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.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

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.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

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

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

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