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.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.