The secret ballot makes a secret government and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

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.

Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.