Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.