The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

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

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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men

I'm fine with death. I've dealt out more than my share. It's the act of dyin' that bothers me.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

Fat is where comedy is stored.

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.