Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

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.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

He loves me." "You sound surprised." "Nobody ever did. Not like this. It's easy to say, for some people. The words. But it's not just words with Roarke. He sees inside me, and it doesn't matter.