The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
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;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
