You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.