Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Every type of socialism is unworkable because economic calculation is impossible in a socialist community.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the F hrer principle.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.

The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.