For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have.

All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.