Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

You know I hate to chase. I'm only here to talk, but if you run, I'll have to chase and we both know where that usually ends up.

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

My mind is my biggest asset.