Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission;
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
