The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.