It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

The universe is asymmetric.