The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.