The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.