Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.

Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.