Socialist society is a society of officials.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.