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

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

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.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

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.

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