Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

He celebrated his solitude with a frown.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.