The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?

The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.

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

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.