The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.