It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

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