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.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.