The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

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.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Embrace your dreams ... If you wanna be a hero, you gotta have dreams.

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.

Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies.

Be superior to pleasure.

From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!