Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.