Free Markets

Sire, the administration that you have honored with your confidence has proposed a law to prohibit your faithful subjects from using their right hands.

If you are asked, "What, then, is to be done?" reply, "Be just to everybody."

The problem in Europe (and the USA) is not too much but too little austerity — or its complete absence.

Tax gatherer: "You have secured twenty tuns of wine? Have the goodness to deliver up to me six of the best." Vintner: "Good Heaven! you are going to ruin me."

 President Obama's recent re-election bid included considerable pandering to women voters, including the so-called equal-pay-for-equal-work campaign.

What we have in mind when we talk about interventionism is the government's desire to do more than prevent assaults and fraud.

The argument over gold is a replay of the arguments of Adam Smith against the arguments of the mercantilists.

If outcry is preferred to argument, let us vociferate, "King Midas has a snout, and asses' ears."

It was not the banks as such that caused the crisis but rather the boom-bust policies of the central banks of Ireland and Iceland.