Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.