Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.