The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.

When something's fallen apart as many times as usI can't put it back together, it's not the same

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.