The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.