“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.”

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.

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.

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.

I’ve been talking about unifying the division for a long time.

I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt – and the key word is ‘try’ – I’m ready to give them that opportunity.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

A problem shared is a problem divided. A tragedy shared is a tragedy multiplied.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.