If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.