All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

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