The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.

Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be reminded enough that in a free society, a profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

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

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.