There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.

no society with a wide power imbalance remains free for very long.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Property and society are completely irreconcilable with one another. It is as impossible to associate two proprietors as to join two magnets by their opposite poles. Either society must perish, or it must destroy property.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.