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

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.

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.

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

Who knows what real really is...

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.