We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

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.

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

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.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.