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

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.