Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.