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

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.

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

George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, "So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

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