The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't quite picture that other character. But it was Vancouver, and that year was crazy

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.