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.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.