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

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

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

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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

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

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.