All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

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

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

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

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.