What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

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.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart.

Man's the bad child of the universe.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.