The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — 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
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender… — 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 one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. — 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
