Frederic Bastiat

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.