Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

It is because it’s prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.

If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie that one party can only gain at the expense of another.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.