We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.