Politics Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

— Ludwig von Mises

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

— Ludwig von Mises

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

— Ludwig von Mises

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

— Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom…

— Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out…

— Ludwig von Mises

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles…

— Ludwig von Mises

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of…

— Ludwig von Mises

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their…

— Ludwig von Mises

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is…

— Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager…

— Ludwig von Mises

Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand…

— Ludwig von Mises

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a…

— Ludwig von Mises

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or…

— Ludwig von Mises

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods;…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In…

— Ludwig Von Mises

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is…

— Ludwig von Mises

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary…

— Ludwig von Mises

“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“Therefore it is not arrogance or narrow-mindedness that leads the economist to discuss these things from the standpoint of economics. No one,…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“These people look upon inequality as upon an evil. They do not assert that a definite degree of inequality which can be…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“Without exception all political parties promise their supporters a higher real income. There is no difference in this respect between nationalists and…

— Ludwig Von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

— Ludwig von Mises

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises