The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. If you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. And finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. That is government.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.