The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

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.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.