Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

But for their cries, The herons would be lostAmidst the morning snow.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Visions are fulfilled in God's timing.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.

God is a good paymaster

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

The Democrat Party is a shrinking and dwindling hate group. That's literally what they've become.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.