The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.