To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.