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

"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?"

"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."

"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."