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

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.