“The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.”

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness.

To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Man cannot survive except through his mind.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

We work to become, not to acquire.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Faith makes all things possible, love makes all things easy.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.