Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.