History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

I put it into my mind to become a complete player, a complete player.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.