In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."