Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.