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

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.