A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.
What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
More important than the material issue. . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us. . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.