The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior.