Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.

In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.

Live without seeing, but be what you are.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.