When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

The circus arrives without warning.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Carlito likes to swap spit with men who don't want to be cool.

Well I've had a happy life.

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?