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.

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

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

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

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.

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

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