“The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.”

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.

The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.

For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.

To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.

I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She’s an amazing musician and it’s an honour to be opening for her in London.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it’s wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.