Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Never break another man's rice bowl.

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

No one who lives in error is free.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.