Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.