"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."

"It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."

"I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy."

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."