Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.