An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

If you rest, you rust.

May you find a new strength to reach out for dreams.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!

Adventure is found not in a fair wind, but rather in a raging tempest.

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

Pain is just another form of information.

Only you can decide what is most important in your life.