The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.

I want to be an actress when I'm on set, not just a model. Those are the moments I live for.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.