The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.