Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.