Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.