The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.