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

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

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?

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

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

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.