In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

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

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)