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

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

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.

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.

Languages are true analytical methods.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

If something is not working out, change the method, but don’t change your mind.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.