Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death.".

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable..

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just ….

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it..

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?.

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him….

We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failur….

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people….

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger..

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up….

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good thing….

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose..

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger..

There's no business that's too small for government to torture.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years..

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling u….

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important t….

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion ca….

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't..

If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as ….

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system..