Ludwig von Mises

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

— Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

— Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

— Ludwig von Mises

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

— Ludwig von Mises

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

— Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

— Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

— Ludwig von Mises

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

— Ludwig von Mises

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

— Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

— Ludwig von Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…

— 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

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies…

— Ludwig von Mises

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable…

— Ludwig von Mises

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they…

— 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

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards…

— 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

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures…

— Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living…

— 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

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

— Ludwig von Mises

Human action is purposeful behavior.

— Ludwig von Mises

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

— Ludwig von Mises

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

— Ludwig von Mises

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

— Ludwig von Mises

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises