A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.