There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

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.

Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

God chooses only hard working people for His works.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

A game is not won until it is lost.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.