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.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.

Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.

He moves fastest who moves alone.