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

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.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

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

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

One genius is about all a house will hold.

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.