1. “The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.”
2. “Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.”
3. “Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.”
4. “Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.”
5. “Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience and breeds social, cultural and economic degeneration.”
6. “There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.”
7. “Capitalism and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.”
8. “To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.”
9. “What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.”
10. “Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don’t be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.”
11. “Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.”
12. “Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.”
13. “The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of tings legal for itself that would be illegal for us.”
14. “Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.”
15. “What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.”
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