Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

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.

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.

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.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

If I could uncover what beliefs and values control me, I can literally redesign me.

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.