The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel.

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

Art is not only about angst.

I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong