The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.