If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

To see the farm is to leave it.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.