The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.

You're a free man, act like it.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

I may be lost, but I'm traveling the right way.

The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.