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

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.