Ludwig von Mises Quotes
- All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of… Accounting
- Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. Biblical
- The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. Aim
- Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. Always Bad
- The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you… Apologists
- The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. Common
- Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. Aggression
- Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. Asking
- History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be… Bayonets
- War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Conquered
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. All
- The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Inspirational
- If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. Abolish
- Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation... Annihilation
- Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. Among
- A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. Bayonets
- Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. Adherence
- Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown… Competition
- When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… Acquired
- Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. Cannot Make