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.

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.