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?

One genius is about all a house will hold.

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.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

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.

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.

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