The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .