Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.