A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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

My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.