Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.