The need for government in these respects arises because absolute freedom is impossible. However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy, it is not… - Milton Friedman

However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy, it is not feasible in a world of imperfect men.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?