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

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

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

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

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

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.