As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.
I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
I think it’s a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.
The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.
Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s disadvantaged to become tomorrow’s privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day’s toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.
The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.
There is not a line in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ that is not still applicable to this day.
If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn’t stand a chance.
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.