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

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

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

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

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

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