The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.