To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.