I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

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

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

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

What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!