"The state is the most dangerous enemy of man's rights. It is the legal, institutionalized, and organized aggressor against his property, his freedom, and his life."

"Man's mind is his basic means of survival."

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all."

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."