If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.