Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. The benefits of a tariff are visible. [Union workers] can see they are 'protected'. The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

We make no hypocritical pretense of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. While we regard the welfare of these people as a sacred tr…

One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities--places like Milwaukee, Madi…

Ricardo's 'science' was founded on the principle that capital is more or less immobile and labor highly mobile. We are enjoined today to worship the consequenc…