My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

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

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.