Vices are not crimes.

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.

Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon’s opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

I have the most romantic husband. I do.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.