Statistics do not speak for themselves.

You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is - maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something else - at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price than you buy it at. There's no other way to make money.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

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?!

When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?