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 humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

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

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

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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