“The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.”

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

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

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

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

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

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

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.

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

The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices – it reflects on who I am.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

There’s always a better word than a swear word.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I chose myself today, not over you. I can never do that, and you know that well. I just chose the new me over my past self.