If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.

A friend gives me an abusive word and a stranger does the same!!!! Huge difference, coz what matters is WHO said IT!!!!!

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112