There is no good way of measuring poverty.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The sacred lamp burns to give light

If it makes you feel any better we will be happy to attack a country that had nothing to do with it.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.