What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — 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
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has… — 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
If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live… — 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
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,… — 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
The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — 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
