Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.