What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

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

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

The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

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.