--- title: "1 Classical liberalism Quotes By Hans-Hermann Hoppe" description: "1 Classical liberalism quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Plus more from Hans-Hermann Hoppe and more Classical liberalism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/hans-hermann-hoppe-16076_classical-liberalism_incidentally-the-same-logic-that-would-f_2690218.jpg" --- > [“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically the best solution to the problem of consumer satisfaction also forces one, so far as moral-ideological positions are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/incidentally-the-same-logic-that-would-force-one-to-accept-the-idea/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/hans-hermann-hoppe-16076_classical-liberalism_incidentally-the-same-logic-that-would-f_2690218.jpg) ## Other authors on Classical liberalism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-ludwig-von-mises-61872.jpg) Ludwig von Mises 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classical-liberalism/ludwig-von-mises/) ## More by Hans-Hermann Hoppe > [An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/an-expropriating-property-protector-the-state-through-taxation-is-a/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/if-an-agency-is-the-ultimate-judge-in-every-case-of-conflict-then-it/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/it-is-states-that-are-responsible-for-the-deaths-of-hundreds-of/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [“However, not only external expansion of state power is brought about by the ideology of nationalism. War as the natural outgrowth of nationalism is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/however-not-only-external-expansion-of-state-power-is-brought-about/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/the-state-operates-in-a-legal-vacuum-there-exists-no-contract-between/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/no-the-state-is-anything-but-the-result-of-a-contract-no-one-with/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/first-with-the-establishment-of-a-state-and-territorially-defined/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/more-paper-money-cannot-make-a-society-richer-of-course-it-is-just/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [“In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/in-accordance-with-his-high-time-preference-he-may-want-to-be-a/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/what-is-true-just-and-beautiful-is-not-determined-by-popular-vote-the/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/the-state-spends-much-time-and-effort-persuading-the-public-that-it/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/thanks-to-the-central-bank-most-monetary-experts-and-leading-macro/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/private-property-implies-exclusivity-inequality-and-difference/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/if-the-power-of-government-rests-on-the-widespread-acceptance-of/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) > [With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hermann-hoppe/with-the-socialization-of-the-health-care-system-through-institutions/) [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hermann-hoppe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classical-liberalism/hans-hermann-hoppe/#itemlist", "name": "1 Classical liberalism Quotes By Hans-Hermann Hoppe", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically the best solution to the problem of consumer satisfaction also forces one, so far as moral-ideological positions are concerned, to abandon the political theory of classical liberalism and take the small but nevertheless decisive step (from there) to the theory of libertarianism, or private property anarchism. Classical liberalism, with Ludwig von Mises as its foremost representative in the twentieth century, advocates a social system based on the nonaggression principle. And this is also what libertarianism advocates. But classical liberalism then wants to have this principle enforced by a monopolistic agency (the government, the state)—an organization, that is, which is not exclusively dependent on voluntary, contractual support by the consumers of its respective services, but instead has the right to unilaterally determine its own income, i.e., the taxes to be imposed on consumers in order to do its job in the area of security production. Now, however plausible this might sound, it should be clear that it is inconsistent. Either the principle of nonaggression is valid, in which case the state as a privileged monopolist is immoral, or business built on and around aggression—the use of force and of noncontractual means of acquiring resources—is valid, in which case one must toss out the first theory. It is impossible to sustain both contentions and not to be inconsistent unless, of course, one could provide a principle that is more fundamental than both the nonaggression principle and the states’ right to aggressive violence and from which both, with the respective limitations regarding the domains in which they are valid, can be logically derived. However, liberalism never provided any such principle, nor will it ever be able to do so, since, to argue in favor of anything presupposes one’s right to be free of aggression. 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