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.

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.

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

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

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

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but the enduring principles that help us to interpret and understand the world do not. It remains true now, as then, as in the future, saecula saeculorum, that government provides neither an effective nor a moral means for solving any human problem.