The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

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.

I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Drink deeply from good books.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.