Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.