The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.