If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?