When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

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