Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

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.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.