American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.