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.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.