I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.