The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.