The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

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

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

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?

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

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

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.