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

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.