God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
My plan is to govern as long as I can.
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.