“The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.”

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

You’re allowed to disagree. You’re allowed to live differently. You’re allowed to struggle publicly, but I’m also allowed to NOT struggle publicly.

You’re allowed to disagree. You’re allowed to live differently. You’re allowed to struggle publicly, but I’m also allowed to NOT struggle publicly.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.