Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.