The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.