The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves