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

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.

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.

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

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.