What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in w….

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic….

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree ….

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same..

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action..

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pu….

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly..

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race..

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long per….

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there..

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. ….

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression..

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status..

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god….

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exi….

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity..

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress..

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish..

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily..

One genius is about all a house will hold..

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state..