Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.