Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.