The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.

The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.

If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.