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.

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.

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.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?