Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.