A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?