Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.