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 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.

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.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

God is my defender.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it.

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.