The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Only the unique is universal.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

Prose proposes, verse reverses.