Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those… — 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
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — 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
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