Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in… — 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 any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised… — 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
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