Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

I like a quiet life, you know me.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

I live my life like there's no yesterday.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things we can do to change our lives.