[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.