“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.”

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.

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.

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

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

Mustafa Kemal’s government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.