You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.