The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.