Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.