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

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

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.

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.

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.

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

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