What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.