Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.

A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.