Nor do the spokesmen for these organizations ever explain why, if the public school system is doing such a splendid job, it needs to fear competition… - Milton Friedman

To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.

The organization of economic activity through voluntary exchange presumes that we have provided, through government, for the maintenance of law and order to prevent coercion of one individual by another, the enforcement of contracts voluntarily entered into, the definition of the meaning of property rights, the interpretation and enforcement of such rights, and the provision of a monetary framework.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.