Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

The people I worked with were supportive, and I'm flattered that you would call what I did 'acting.'

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.