There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.