The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.