The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

You create the possibility of reaching your desired destinations if you have the courage to begin your journey.

I know my soul is beautiful I know I'm a good person. And that will never change for me.

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!

I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.