I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.

You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.