When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.