A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical read more

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.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of read more

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus read more

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other read more

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Good government is no substitute for self-government

Good government is no substitute for self-government

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.