Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

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.

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments.