1. “The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”
2. “Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking.”
3. “Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
4. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
5. “He moves fastest who moves alone.”
6. “Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
7. “Society doesn’t have values. People have values.”
8. “Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation.”
9. “One of the greatest mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
10. “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
11. “Not all ‘schooling’ is ‘education’, and not all ‘education’ is ‘schooling’.”
12. “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
13. “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
14. “Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.”
15. “The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
