In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

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

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.