Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.