There is no good way of measuring poverty.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

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

The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.