Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.