“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.”
“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.”
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”