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 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.

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.

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

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.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.

Safety tip. When you see smoke run, never wait for fire.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God