There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the c… - Milton Friedman

Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books—in its effect, not its intent.

Our gain from foreign trade is what we import. Exports are the price we pay to get imports. As Adam Smith saw so clearly, the citizens of a nation benefit from getting as large a volume of imports as possible in return for its exports, or equivalently, from exporting as little as possible to pay for its imports.