There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...

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.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Think rich, look poor.

There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.

If you are psychic you may see that the smiling faces aren't smiling at all, inside. You can eliminate those individuals from your life and cancel their effect.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.