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

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.

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

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

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

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.