No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

inspect what you expect

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.