I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

How do you hold down government spending?

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

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

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.