Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.