If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.