The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

Once you go alien, you really do never go back.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.