There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — 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
