“The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.”

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness.

To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

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

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you’ve found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.