Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.