Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

Want wisdom? Laugh at yourself.

In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn’t code very well.

Life delights in life.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.