The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.