A.R. Von Quotes
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.
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.
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.
It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.
There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
