The Practical Reason For Freedom Is That

The State Claims And Exercises The Monopoly Of Crime... It Forbids Private Murder, But Itself Organizes Murder On A Colossal Scale. It Punishes Private Theft, But Itself Lays Unscrupulous Hands On Anything It Wants, Whether The Property Of Citizen Or Of Alien.

We Have Two Distinct Types Of Political Organization To Take Into Account; And Clearly, Too, When Their Origins Are Considered, It Is Impossible To Make Out That The One Is A Mere Perversion Of The Other. Therefore When We Include Both Types Under A General Term Like Government, We Get Into Logical Difficulties; Difficulties Of Which Most Writers On The Subject Have Been More Or Less Vaguely Aware, But Which, Until Within The Last Half-century, None Of Them Has Tried To Resolve.

The Mentality Of An Army On The March Is Merely So Much Delayed Adolescence; It Remains Persistently, Incorrigibly And Notoriously Infantile.

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.

Considered Now As A Possession, One May Define Culture As The Residuum Of A Large Body Of Useless Knowledge That Has Been Well And Truly Forgotten.