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.

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

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

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

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

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

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