There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.