Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

I have earned my disillusionment.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.