Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.