Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.