There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The stock market and economy are two different things.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.