Great Throughts Treasury

"Fascism is... arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state."

"If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality."

"Politicians are leaches, mostly."

"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."

"It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved"

"The belief that people may justly be coerced so as to secure funds to pay medical professionals who then will service those who need their work is an error. In a free country adult men and women must treat each other as ends in themselves, not as unwilling tools, instruments, or means to each other?s ends. Just as someone may not go over to his neighbor?s home and conscript some unwilling individual to come and mow his lawn or drive him to the hospital but must ask for this and await willingly given help, so any service such as medical care must be obtained without coercion."