When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

Draw a cart with horses, or push it down a hill...Both move the cart, aye?” -- Daerwin of Brannagh

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.