A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt prod….

More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. ….

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the conditions and in….

New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is….

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector..

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore..

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than….

All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They get their imm….

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is r….

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness o….

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income propos….

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of ….

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces..

Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-No….

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, ….

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the….

There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something ….

A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic c….

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect ….

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage ….

No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. The spending of the rich gives ….