There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

People spend money when and where they feel good.