Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.