Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

It's not the end of the road, it's just the end of the road work.

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.

Science is just as important as magic.

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.