What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life..

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I like things in their proper places.

I'm only going one way.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.