On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.