In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.

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.