“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.”

“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the c...”

“To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings,...”

“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”

“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.”

“She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as ...”

“And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one...”

“Man is an end in himself.”