What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints