“True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.”

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

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.

Tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.

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.

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.