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.

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are only arbitrary conventions to which I have never given my consent. In trampling these institutions underfoot, I shall have the double pleasure of satisfying my inclinations and of believing myself a hero

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.