A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

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

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.