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.

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

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

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.

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.