Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are… — 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 Image
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 Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
