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

Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would prevent or otherwise hobble mutually beneficial trade between any two parties anywhere in the world. No bureaucracy can help us toward that goal; it must come from a growing realization of the merit of freedom itself.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

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

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.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.