The Civilization Of A Country Consists In

It Is Certainly True That Whatever A Man May Do Or Say, The Most Significant Thing About Him Is What He Thinks; And Significant Also Is How He Came To Think It, Why He Continued To Think It, Or, If He Did Not Continue, What The Influences Were Which Caused Him To Change His Mind.

When A Beggar Asks Us For A Quarter, Our Instinct Is To Say That The State Has Already Confiscated Our Quarter For His Benefit, And He Should Go To The State About It.

Considering Mankind's Indifference To Freedom, Their Easy Gullibility And Their Facile Response To Conditioning, One Might Very Plausibly Argue That Collectivism Is The Political Mode Best Suited To Their Disposition And Their Capacities. Under Its Regime, The Citizen, Like The Soldier, Is Relieved Of The Burden Of Initiative And Is Divested Of All Responsibility, Save For Doing As He Is Told.

Useless Knowledge Can Be Made Directly Contributory To A Force Of Sound And Disinterested Public Opinion.

Another Strange Notion Pervading Whole Peoples Is That The State Has Money Of Its Own; And Nowhere Is This Absurdity More Firmly Fixed Than In America. The State Has No Money. It Produces Nothing. It Existence Is Purely Parasitic, Maintained By Taxation; That Is To Say, By Forced Levies On The Production Of Others. 'government Money,' Of Which One Hears So Much Nowadays, Does Not Exist; There Is No Such Thing.