Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.