It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it.

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage private enterprise is to establish justice, to enforce contracts, to insure domestic peace and tranquility, to protect private property, and to secure the blessings of liberty including economic liberty - which means to stop putting obstacles in the way of private enterprise.

Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.'

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

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.

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.