Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the… — 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
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no… — 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
