There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay...

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied ‘Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

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

In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as...

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

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

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

As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value...