Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere.

It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.