Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.

The full Moon's light poured into the room like a stroke from a wide paintbrush...

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.