The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in…

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family…

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion -- such as the Mafia. So to be more precise…

In the physical sciences there may be little objection to trying to do the impossible; one might even feel that one ought not to discourage the over-confident …

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!