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.

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

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