Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

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.

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

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.