Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.