As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it for granted that when we stick a piece of plastic in a wall, cash will come out; that when we give the same plastic to a stranger, he will rent us a car, and the next month, Visa will have the accounting correct to the penny. By contrast, "experts" in government can't even count the vote accurately.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.