It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.