[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.