Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

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

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.