“The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.”

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

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

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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

There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

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

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I’m not an educator. I’m a learner.

Education is the path to revelation.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.