Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

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.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.