The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.