There's no such thing as a free lunch.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

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

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

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.