Economist quotes

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.