Austrian-economics Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty…

— Ludwig von Mises

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

— Lysander Spooner

“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so…

— Robert Higgs

“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and…

— Larken Rose

“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”

— Robert Higgs

“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation…

— George Reisman

“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests, and now…

— Stefan Molyneux

“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism,…

— Albert Jay Nock

“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.…

— Stefan Molyneux