“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
“很难想象有比把决策交给那些不需要为错误付出代价的人更愚蠢或更危险的做法。”
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
“你永远无法理解官僚体系，除非你明白对于官僚来说，程序就是一切，而结果什么都不是。”
“The government is always very ready to solve problems — but the problem is the solution usually makes things worse.”
“政府总是准备好去解决问题，但问题在于，他们的解决方案通常会使事情变得更糟。”
“The great political illusion is that government can change reality by simply passing laws.”
“一个巨大的政治幻觉是，政府可以通过简单地颁布法律来改变现实。”
“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.”
“官僚主义就是把可能的事情变得不可能的艺术。”
“One of the most dangerous ways of trying to make the world better is by using political power to force people to live as you wish.”
“试图改善世界的最危险方式之一，就是利用政治权力去强迫人们按照你所希望的方式生活。”
“The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.”
“福利国家并不真的是关于大众的福祉，而是关于精英们的自负。”
“The real minimum wage is zero. The government can set whatever wage it wants, but it cannot force employers to hire anyone at those wages.”
“真正的最低工资是零。政府可以设定任何工资标准，但它无法强迫雇主以这些工资雇佣任何人。”
“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“太多所谓的‘教育’不过是对现实的昂贵隔离。”
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”
“最不具生产力的人往往是最热衷于开会的人。”
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
“没有解决方案，只有权衡取舍。”
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
“要意识到自己无知的程度，往往需要相当的知识。”
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.”
“经济学的第一课是稀缺：永远没有足够的资源来满足所有人的需求。”
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
“自由的代价是鲜血和痛苦，不能以廉价的言辞轻易放弃。”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
“当你想帮助别人时，你告诉他们真相；当你想帮助自己时，你告诉他们他们想听的。”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“社会主义总体上有着明显的失败记录，只有知识分子才能忽视或回避这一点。”
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
“过去三十年中，西方社会历史在很大程度上就是用听起来好听的东西取代了原本有效的东西。”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“事实不会因为被忽视而不存在。”