No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.