Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

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.

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.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

My family is very far from normal.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.