Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.