The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

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.

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

I want to write about grown-up things.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.