So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.