Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.

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.