All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

What if choices were not viewed as right and wrong, but instead as just a variety of life experiences?

Channel your energy into your God-given purpose. Being out of a job gives you all the time you need to grow

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

The thing I do best is laugh.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color