The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. |
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. |
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. |
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government |
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. |
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. |
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience |
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. |
The power to do good is also the power to do harm. |
There's no such thing as a free lunch. |
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. |
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students ... not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. |
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. |
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. |
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? 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 |