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.

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

These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.