Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

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.

Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that.

An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.