The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'