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.

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.

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.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

You cannot capture warmth in a toast, but you can capture toast in a warmth.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Blues was made for the recessed.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.