Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.