Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

A rational process is a moral process.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.