The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

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.

Self-reflection is a kind of self-judgment. The difference is just this – the former is positive and the latter is negative.

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun

Thomas Jefferson survives.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.