Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

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

An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.