We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

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.

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.