Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.