People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of” their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

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 word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.