When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.