They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

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

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!