Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

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.

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Doug Larson, the famous runner and 1924 Olympic Gold Medal winner, said it best 'Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

The essence of cinema is editing.

They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.