The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Explore the world with an open mind, a sturdy carry-on, and clothes that don't wrinkle!

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

To redeem your territory for the kingdom is to identify your territory

In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.