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

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

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