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

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

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

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

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

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

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.