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Policy Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
- The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have…
- [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day…
- In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
- Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action…
- Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in…
- State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive…
- The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend,…
- Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward…
- These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small…
- What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,…
- Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade…
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- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. — Alec Baldwin
- For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much… — Bob Beauprez
- Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly… — Bob Beauprez
- Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. — Bob Beauprez
- Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez