Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.