No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in, " said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.

Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.