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.

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.

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.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.