A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Creating a company culture is the first operational step in becoming a bold, brave fempreneur. It creates certainty, a road map and stability.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

Peopleare really the only thingwe are taking with uswhen we leave.—Terry Meewsen

The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.