“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness.

To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.

The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

Not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.