Absolute power demoralizes.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

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.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.