The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

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

There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.