It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.