As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

Life is too short because we die.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.