It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — 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
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — 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
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
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — 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
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — 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
Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the… — 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. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — 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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