If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.