What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

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.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

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

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

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.