The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.