If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you shoul…

- William E. Simon

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

- William E. Simon

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

- William E. Simon

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

- William E. Simon

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological …

- William E. Simon

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

- William E. Simon

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

- William E. Simon

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That …

- William E. Simon

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

- William E. Simon