The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

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?

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.