Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

A double-minded person is unstable in all his doing

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

I'm jealous of my parents. I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.