Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

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.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

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.