Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.