Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Them who don't look, sometimes get took.

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.