We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.