Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil…

“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

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under…

— Ludwig von Mises

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

— Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

— Ludwig von Mises

“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…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The free market system of capitalism enhances freedom in three ways. Traditionally freedom of exchange has been seen as a basic form of individual…

— Cudd/Holmstrom

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

“John Locke says that whatever other tasks a government undertakes—whether humanitarian or otherwise—its primary duty is to protect its own citizens from foreign and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A…

— Henry Steele Commager

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

“Despite Gentile’s disagreement with Marx about historical inevitability, he has at this point clearly broken with modern conservatism and classical liberalism and revealed himself…

— Dinesh D'Souza

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not…

— Noam Chomsky

“The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and human rights…

— Mario Vargas Llosa