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

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

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.

Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.