And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.