The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

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.

The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.