No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

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.

Every engine takes advantage of a difference.

You stupid piece of warm bacon.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.