The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.

It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.