Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.