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

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.

As novices, we think we’re entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

Making the best of things is… a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Writing fiction is… an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting...