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.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

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