I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

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 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.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

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.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Don’t try to be just a success

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.