Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.

If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.