“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.”

“The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.”

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

“When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.”

“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.”

“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. Th...”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”