By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.