And where are you going to get these angels who are going to run society for us?

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

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

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

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.