People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

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 nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.""They're not empty now.

Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses.

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.