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

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

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.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.