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!

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.

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

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality.

Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

What's the point in fashion if nobody can wear it?