An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

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

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 military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

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.

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.