The Practical Reason For Freedom Is That

As Far As I Know, I Have No Pride Of Opinion.

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

You Get The Same Order Of Criminality From Any State To Which You Give Power To Exercise It; And Whatever Power You Give The State To Do Things For You Carries With It The Equivalent Power To Do Things To You.

The Question Of Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong Has Seemed To Me Always Too Small To Be Worth A Moment's Thought, While The Question Of What Is Right And What Is Wrong Has Seemed All-important.

As Sheer Casual Reading Matter, I Still Find The English Dictionary The Most Interesting Book In Our Language.