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

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.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.