It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.