The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Life is too short to be miserable for 40+ hours a week.

95% of economics is common sense

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

The Mail Online is like carbs - you know you shouldn't but you do. Probably two or three times a day.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.