The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

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.

For once, it seems there’s nothing to worry about…… for the time

God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them