A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.

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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

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Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

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