It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

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.

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.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

If you're committed, that just means you're in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.