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

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

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

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints