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

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.

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.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don’t live a different you! Don't disappoint God!

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Improbable things happen a lot...

I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!