The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather 'What can I and my compatriots do through government' to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom?

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.