Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.