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

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can't do that.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.