The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

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.

When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it

Great and good are seldom the same man.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that.

Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

We see what we want to believe.