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.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

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 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.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.