What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.