Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.