In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

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

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.