It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress .... But then I repeat myself.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man ... which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.