The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.