The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

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

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints