The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

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

He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.

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

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.