Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.