In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.