Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.