Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference...
There is nothing virtuous or noble about being "tolerant" of people whose attitudes and behaviors you approve of. If you don't defend the freedom of even those individuals whose attitudes and behavior...
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see tha...
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.