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.

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.