There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Everybody is a main character to someone...

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Smile, it enhances your face value.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.