Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

I'm the git in the family.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.