Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

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

Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.