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

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.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

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.

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.

Amazing grace

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing, " covering myself with one of my daybooks, and she said, "It's Something!

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.