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.

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

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.

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.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.