The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.

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.

The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things.

Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.