As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices below the market, or artificially supporting them from above.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.