Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Infallibility is not a precondition of knowing what one does know, of firmness in one's convictions, and of loyalty to one's values.

[The Constitution] is not a charter *for* government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection *against* the government.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

[I]f a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

Observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists....[m]an is treated as if he were an *unnatural* phenomenon.

The only real threat to people's savings, which shrinks them and can wipe them out, is *inflation*.

[I]f the government assumes a totalitarian power and its officials are not subject to any law, *who will protect us from our protectors*?

[W]hen you choose any activity, you must act according to the nature and terms of that activity -- if you want to succeed.