The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.