Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

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.

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.