The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Being honest to yourself is the smartest you can ever do.Do no allow the words of others to lead you to a road of confussion, follow your heart beat.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

My calm is like the tides: never at rest.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're in combat with somebody, yes, a bond does grow.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.