As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.