The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.