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.

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

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

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.

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 great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

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