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

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

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

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.

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.