Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.