Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!