Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.