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No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

The greatest political problem facing the world today is ... how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.