War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.