The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.