It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

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

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.