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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.