In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm

In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel un-comfortable.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.