The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

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.

May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

Knowledge is the life of the mind

The past could only control your present and future through your mind. So by all means, guard your mind with the gate of positivity.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.