Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

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

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.