The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

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

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

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.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

I speak a little Spanish, so I'm able to communicate.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.