True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

In my imagination you're waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

I can choose to be unstable.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

That's where I take all my inspiration from is my own life and experiences, things I enjoy and am a fan of.