If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

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.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.