It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

Over, under, around, or through. There is always a way. - Soteria