I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

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.

Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.