A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.