If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.