The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

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.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.