Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

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.

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

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.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.