So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

I'm a character actor.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.