To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

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.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.