“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contractthe Constitutionmade eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it...”

“If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in...”

“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and...”

“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers t...”

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not on...”

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So its not that you are anti-gun. Youll need the polices guns to take away other peoples...”

“Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. Its not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly...”

“The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.”

“While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this s...”

“Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor”

“Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe...”

“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.”

“God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.”