The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

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

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.