The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

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.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

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