“State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.”

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

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

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.

The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.

As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some ‘reputable’ economist, since there is no single standard to which all ‘reputable’ economists must repair.

In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

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.