In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

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.

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.