No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.