Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

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.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

I changed the course of my disease with the power of my mind.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.