The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

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

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

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

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.