The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

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.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.

I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.

I play any piano with a good tune.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!