The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter, even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I write in the studio.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?