If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

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

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.