Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.