Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?