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.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

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