Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.