If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

If your small work does not experience increase and growth, you will be starving yourself inspiration

Never blame your shortcomings on your personality. You're not built that way

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.