“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.