Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion that must be paid later. And government's spending choices will always be uneconomic relative to how society would use that wealth. That is to say, the money will be wasted.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.