The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

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

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

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