The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.