“Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

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.

Nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period.

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares

I like being challenged.

It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population.

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Construct well being or produce illness in your self.

True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings.

Truth to being with.