The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

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.

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open-minded.

Give it all you can.

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

None of us is as good as we think we are. Every one of us is more than we think we can be.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.