Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production … - Milton Friedman

Joan Robinson, a leading Keynesian and radical, produced a specimen for me to analyze. I said something like, "This is obviously the writing of a foreigner, so it's difficult for me to analyze. But I would say it is written by someone who had considerable artistic but not much intellectual talent." It turned out to be the handwriting of Lydia Lopokova, the world-famous Russian ballerina whom Keynes had married. That was surely my greatest triumph of the year at Cambridge!

Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.

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