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.

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

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

In life everything is continually in flux.