To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.