The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Do not give things to children; give them hardship.

-- Nogi Maresuke

Let those who will, write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson

I don't care who writes a nation's laws, or crafts its advanced treaties, if I can write its economics textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

-- Friedrich Hayek