Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

The Truth is the Sacred Word of God.

He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone

I'm not a nice person.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

When you love someone, you treat them well.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.