A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.