“Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind’s average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history.”

“Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum”

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”

“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.”

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

“Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.”