A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Strength for today, overflowing grace.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.