When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.