Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.