"If one behaved as a good citizen or a charitable person simply because one was dreadfully scared of the state placing one in jail, one would not be a good citizen or person but barely more than a circus animal."

“assume, in the way they address politicians or report on social problems, that whatever is important to society must be a matter of public or state concern.”

“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen—that is what makes the crucial difference.”

“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything... it amounts to... a gross violation of human liberty.”

“Regulatory policies are inherently redistributive; that is, they involve the seizure of earned income for purposes of allocating this income in ways the government’s policymakers believe are more important than do those whose income has been seized.”

“oercive human interactions destructive, even where the coercion is urged from honorable motives, and advocates confining the use of physical force in human relations to instances of the administration of justice understood as the protection and maintenance of individual human rights.”

“here is little doubt that only a totalitarian government aims to take on every possible concern of the citizenry.”