One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.