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He moves fastest who moves alone.
I am a limited-government libertarian.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Statistics do not speak for themselves.
How do you hold down government spending?
There is no good way of measuring poverty.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.
There is only one social responsibility of business
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
The stock market and economy are two different things.
Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.
The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.
Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.
The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.
You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.
There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.
The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.
My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.
The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.
The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.