Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.

Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.