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

If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

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.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.