The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.