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

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

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

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

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