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.

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.

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.

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

To live is to evolve our point of view about the world and what we have decided to do with it.

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.