A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.