A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.