Citizens Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

20 Citizens quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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Mises ties liberty to economic choice, and these 20 passages illustrate his belief that citizens thrive when markets operate without undue restraint. A concise guide for anyone intrigued by libertarian thought.

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The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

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Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual…

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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing…

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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the…

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Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,…

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Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from…

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This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free…

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A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails…

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The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the…

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Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to…

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The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts…

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

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Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be…

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The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private…

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The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.…

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Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from…

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

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...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to…

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During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims…

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Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

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The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

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There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

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All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave…

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The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

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