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

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.

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

[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.

Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience.

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

You never put her in your heart.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.