The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.

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