The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

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.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun.”“Don’t y

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.