“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

America is too great for small dreams.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Freedom is not free.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn’t be bogged down by books.

There’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.