A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
I am a libertarian with a small ‘l’ and a Republican with a capital ‘R’. And I am a Republican with a capital ‘R’ on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are ‘protected’. The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It’s spread widely. There are people who don’t have jobs because of tariffs, but they don’t know it.