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

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

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

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

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

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.

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