Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.