Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.

Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

A little more than kin, and less than kind.