If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.