Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Great men can't be ruled.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A gun is not an argument.