Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 22, 1886 Death: January 10, 1961
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action..
The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people..
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….
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish..
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state..
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation..
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission..
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlar….
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea..
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility..
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it..
Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for ….
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure..
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important..
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid..
If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now….
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the m….