The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

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.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production