The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.