“You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.”

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.

The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.