If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.
The only real cure for poverty is production.
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.
The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.
The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. . . . want of attention to pecuniary matters. . . has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.
Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer!
For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.