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

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.

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

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.