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 capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.