Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.