This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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