The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail