Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west.

Spend your money for education

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

Idea is not to live forever but to create a life that does.

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.