James Buchanan

The market is a discovery procedure for human cooperation.

Governments fear the light of economic scrutiny.

In the end, we all face the ultimate scarcity: time.

Rent-seeking destroys the wealth it seeks to capture.

Freedom's price is eternal vigilance against state expansion.

The joy of scholarship is in the questions unanswered.

Politicians are like economists: they predict the past perfectly.

Constitutions endure when they reflect human nature's flaws.

My life's work: showing that power corrupts absolutely, even in democracy.