There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man. . . or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.
That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can. "