When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.

Beware the ides of March.