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

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.