Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

The more 'adequate' we make relief, the more people we are going to find willing to get on it and stay on it indefinitely. The more we try to make sure that everybody really in need of relief gets it, the more certain we can be that we are also giving it to people who neither need nor deserve it.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

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

The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.