There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.