Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

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.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.