Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

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.

She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes itharder.- Anita

Secrecy was the problem

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.