Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure..

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important..

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlar….

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now….

But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the m….

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission..

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it..

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid..

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea..

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation..

Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for ….

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long per….

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly..

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same..

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god….

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pu….

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress..

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily..

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exi….

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status..

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. ….