It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

Must be going crazy---my favorite poet latelyhas been me!

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew?

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

I'm a big root beer guy.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.