The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.