The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.