A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

Proper posture conveys that you are ready to take command and master new situations. When you project this level of confidence, you will instill confidence in others.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

Go off-road...Practice a little daring.

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.