Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. — 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
Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you… — 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
The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — 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
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — 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
