There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

It always came down to his freaking pride.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.