Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.