If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

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.