The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.