It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.