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

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

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.

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

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

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

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?