Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

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

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.

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.