States Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

— Ludwig von Mises

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving…

— Ludwig von Mises

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per…

— Ludwig von Mises

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized…

— Ludwig von Mises

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the…

— Ludwig von Mises

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they…

— Ludwig von Mises

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully…

— Ludwig von Mises

In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether…

— Ludwig von Mises

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their…

— Ludwig von Mises

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and…

— Ludwig von Mises

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from…

— Ludwig von Mises

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your…

— Ludwig von Mises