Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

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.

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.

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.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.