The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production