The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

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.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Persecution matures young rebels.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.