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

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

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.

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.