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.

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

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.

The heart doesn’t care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe.

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.