"The only proper purpose of government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense,…"

"The root of all evil is the belief that there are no objective moral values."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression b…"

"Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator."

"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."